Re: Bat-bashing. Batman has been a tremendous dick--in canon--to some of our favorite characters for years. Possibly decades, depending on who the favorite character is. Why are people constantly surprised that we don't like him?
And before you can say that it was an anomaly, no, it wasn't. It was his across the board characterization. When bad writing happens that often for that long, it no longer becomes bad writing it becomes part of the character. At that point in time, Bats was this dickish, according to those that read comics at the time. I freely admit I did not.